Their empty victual-wagons up the streetOver the bridge dreadfully sound and sway;...Their eyes, as hanged men's, turning the wrong way;And nothing on their backs, or heads, or feet.One sees the ribs and all the skeletonsOf their gaunt horses; and a sorry sightAre the torn saddles, crammed with straw and stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this p...erson. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touc...hes me and I say: "One must not hide that!" Then someone tells you: "The shoulder is on the back." I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, ...to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So it is with books, for the most part: they work no redemption on us. The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are ...in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar, and after to reading to weariness the lettered backs, we leave the shop with a sigh, and learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Lead bullets flattened by human teeth have been found on the camp site. Soldiers who had been caught stealing food from nearby far...ms customarily chewed on a bullet as the lash was laid on their bare backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »